现在有第三种方式可以让章鱼改变自己，以融入或模仿它们所处的环境，那就是改变它们的形状和大小——至少是在表面上改变自己的大小。

Now there's a third way that octopus can transform themselves to blend in with or mimic their environment, and that's by changing their shape and size, at least their apparent size.

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如果你想让他们改变，你必须准备稍作改变。

You have to be ready to change a little if you want them to change.

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我知道，书籍的确能改变生活；许多读者告诉我说，《数星星》在他们年轻时改变了他们的生活，这本书让他们思索残酷和勇气。

Books do change lives, I know; and many readers have told me that Number the Stars changed theirs when they were young, that it made them think about both cruelty and courage.

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And if you could change the gene and make people not gay in the womb should have been done.

如果人们能够改变这种基因,让同性恋们在母体内就改变性取向,那么这种认定就应该进行。

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Though I knew that I had killed the kitten, my mother's words had made it live again in my mind.

我虽杀了那只猫，可母亲让我对它改变了看法。

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We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

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